OF CHANGE
nd local providers face challenges, including sometimes-disconnected efforts across DCYF teams, complex slative constraints and lack of sustainable funding. These factors prevent the state from building a supports at the scale necessary for DCYF to reach its prevention goals.
Engagement Results
Systems Outcomes
Fewer children and families experience child welfare investigations Fewer children and families experience out-of-home placement Disproportionality decreases at each child welfare decision point among Black, Indigenous, and other historically marginalized groups of children, youth, and families More families access voluntary community prevention supports prior to any child welfare system involvement More families access voluntary community prevention support, subsequent to child abuse hotline referrals and following investigations that did not result in open cases
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Community members and those with lived experience provide insights, guidance, and context that influence community prevention pathways Increased support for current community engagement and equity work including specific support for DCYF Community Engagement Infrastructure and the Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice Increased innovative and effective new strategies to promote child and family well-being outside of the child welfare system Marginalized communities and voices are decision makers through active involvement in prevention- focused Community Advisories Increased support for the emerging work to design and test community pathways of prevention that increase access to needed services and coordinated care
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